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 Wild Birds and Wandering Cats. Any thoughts?

Well here are mine. We have bird feeders around our house and this spring we were lucky enough to have robins and doves make their nests and hatch their babies in our pine trees. You can’t even imagine how enraged I was when I pulled in my driveway last night to find not one, but TWO neighborhood cats prowling around my garage door. I grabbed a mag-light and chased them off onto the next block. I did a quick walk around the front and back yards to make sure there were no feathers anywhere.

I didn’t find feathers, but what I did find was the baby robin on the ground. He was alive and didn’t appear to be hurt. I didn’t get too close in case the mom was around. We’ll have to see what the morning brings. Hopefully he will be reunited with momma.

On that note, I strongly believe that either counties or states should make stricter laws regarding cats being outside. We need to keep dogs on leashes why should cats be any different?

Does anyone know any safe LEGAL ways to keep the cats away from my yard? I don’t want the cats hurt, but I definitely want them to think twice about prowling around our house
06/02/09  12:22am

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 Wild Birds and Wandering Cats. Any thoughts?

I think it depends where you live. The best thing you can do is get in touch with your local council or ranger & find out what you can & can’t do.

Where I am in Australia it is illegal to do anything at all to keep a cat out of the yard, pet or stray. The only thing we’re allowed to do is contact the owner of the cat or contact CALM or a ranger & have the cat ’legally removed’. They trap the cats themselves where there are complaints about them.
06/02/09  10:32pm

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 Wild Birds and Wandering Cats. Any thoughts?

I called the owner of one of the cats last summer and she didn’t care that he was wandering around. Her response was, "Yeah, he does that". Friendly cat though

We have had neighbors in the past trap the cats and give them over to animal control, but I don’t want to do anything like that even if sometimes it is a tempting thought lol. I’ll have to see what’s legal here in the good ’ol united states ><
06/03/09  12:21am


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